2010 Cinema Eye Honors

After two years of establishing itself, Cinema Eye began an evolution in its third year that dramatically transformed the organization and created the bones of the Cinema Eye Honors that exists today. Year three marked Cinema Eye’s move away from Indiepix and toward being an independent organization with multiple sponsors and dozens of individuals contributing toward its success.

Moving from March to January, Cinema Eye also expanded for the first time from an one night only awards ceremony to a multi-day event celebrating the nonfiction community as well the year’s creative and artistic achievements. Sponsored by our friends at the Camden International Film Festival, our first non-awards event was a ceremony-eve Nominees Reception at the Thompson LES Hotel in New York.

Year three also saw the addition of two awards: a Spotlight Award for films that have yet to receive proper attention in North America and the Legacy Award for the classic nonfiction films that inspired today’s filmmakers.

The third edition of the Cinema Eye Awards Ceremony was held once again at the TimesCenter in Manhattan on January 15, 2010. Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove received the top award for Outstanding Feature and Agnès Varda was presented with the Outstanding Directing Award for The Beaches of Agnès. The first-ever Spotlight Award went to Jessica Oreck’s Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo and Cinema Eye presented its first Legacy Award to Ross McElwee for Sherman’s March. R.J. Cutler won the Audience Choice Prize for The September Issue. McElwee also served as a presenter at the event, along with filmmakers Peter Davis, Barbara Kopple, Albert Maysles, Bill Plympton, Amir Bar-Lev, Ellen Kuras. Esther Robinson joined AJ Schnack to co-host and co-chair the event, Nathan Truesdell joined the Cinema Eye team as producer.

Outstanding Achievement
in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

• Burma VJ

  Directed by Anders Ostergaard
  Produced by Lise-Lense Moller

• Winner

  The Cove

  Directed by Louie Psihoyos
  Produced by Paula Dupre Pesman And Fisher Stevens

• Food, Inc.

  Directed by Robert Kenner
  Produced by Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein

• Loot

  Directed and Produced by Darius Marder

• October Country

  Directed and Produced by Michael Palmieri And Donal Mosher

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

• Winner

  Agnes Varda

  For The Beaches Of Agnes

• John Maringouin

  For Big River Man

• Anders Ostergaard

  For Burma VJ

• Darius Marder

  For Loot

• Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher

  For October Country

Outstanding Achievement in Editing

• Bill Ross

  For 45365

• Winner

  Janus Billeskov-Jansen and Thomas Papapetros

  For Burma VJ

• Geoff Richman

  For The Cove

• Brad Fuller and Fernando Villena

  For Every Little Step

• David Smith

  For Soul Power

• Josh Altman and Ondi Timoner

  For We Live In Public

Outstanding Achievement in Production

• Maria Florio, Molly Hassell and Molly Lynch

  For Big River Man

• Richard Parry and Vaughan Smith

  For Blood Trail

• Lise-Lense Moller

  For Burma VJ

• Winner

  Paula Dupre Pesman and Fisher Stevens

  For The Cove

• RJ Cutler, Eliza Hindmarch and Sadia Shepard

  For The September Issue

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

• Bill Ross and Turner Ross

  For 45365

• Winner

  Brook Aitken

  For The Cove

• Michael Palmieri

  For October Country

• Deborah Stratman

  For O’er The Land

• Yaron Orbach

  For Unmistaken Child

Audience Choice

• Anvil! The Story Of Anvil

  Directed by Sascha Gervasi

• The Cove

  Directed by Louie Psihoyos

• Every Little Step

  Directed by Adam Del Deo and James D. Stern

• Food, Inc.

  Directed by Robert Kenner

• Good Hair

  Directed by Jeff Stilson

• Winner

  The September Issue

  Directed by RJ Cutler

• Tyson

  Directed by James Toback

• Valentino: The Last Emperor

  Directed by Matt Tyrnauer

Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film

• Bill Ross And Turner Ross

  For 45365

• Louie Psihoyos

  For The Cove

• Darius Marder

  For Loot

• Winner

  Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher

  For October Country

• Aron Gaudet

  For The Way We Get By

Outstanding Achievement
in Original Music Score

• Rich Ragsdale

  For Big River Man

• Joshua Ralph

  For The Cove

• Mark Adler

  For Food, Inc.

• Winner

  Danny Grody, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri and Kenric Taylor

  For October Country

• Joel Goodman

  For Valentino: The Last Emperor

• Ben Decter and Marco D’ambrosio

  For We Live In Public

Outstanding Achievement
in Graphic Design or Animation

• Christophe Vallaux

  For The Beaches Of Agnes

• Winner

  Bigstar

  For Food, Inc.

• Kate Anderson

  For It Might Get Loud

• Winner

  Opensource Cinema

  For Rip – A Remix Manifesto

• Patrick Lichty

  For The Yes Men Fix the World

Spotlight Award

• Because We Were Born

  Directed by Jean-Pierre Duret And Andrea Santana

• Winner

  Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo

  Directed by JJessica Oreck

• Episode 3: Enjoy Poverty

  Directed by Directed by Renzo Martens

• The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy

  Directed by Peter Liechti

• Trimpin: The Sound of Invention

  Directed by Peter Esmonde

Outstanding Achievement
in International Feature Filmmaking

• Winner

  Burma VJ

  Directed by Anders Ostergaard
  Produced by Lise-Lense Moller

• Mugabe and the White African

  Directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson
  Produced by Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock and David Pearson

• Of Time And The City

  Directed by Terence Davies
  Produced by Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos

• Old Partner

  Directed by Chung-Ryoul Lee
  Produced by Young-Jae Goh

• Rough Aunties

  Directed by Kim Longinotto
  Produced by Teddy Liefer and Paul Taylor

• Those Who Remain

  Directed by Carlos Hagerman and Juan Carlos Rulfo
  Produced by Carlos Hagerman, Juan Carlos Rulfo and Nicolas Vale

Legacy Award

• Winner

  Sherman’s March

  Directed by Ross McElwee